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The movement toward greater interdisciplinarity in the academy Last generation is very healthy. It's Understanding of science and recognizes the limits of The human condition, even if - so far Sophisticated and well developed - a set of practices Traditions and ideologies, which goes by the name of Established academic discipline. One Size The discipline of literary studies was the other way Discipline story, written or visual Anthropologist, sociologist of science can benefit, Or biologist and physicist or geologist And archaeologists have things to say to each other A truism, not nearly as much demand Comment or justification. Maybe one day Not embrace the not too distant future Interdisciplinary department, rather than Conditions and fewer resources than "programs" to make Separate work and living on the margins Interdisciplinary space.


In addition to establishing communication between disciplines Interdisciplinarity means greater work And maintenance of an intellectual culture that Calls on various topics for independent and creative thinking Worth investigating. The importance of this work may be Thinkers who have left their mark in more than looked at the life of Is a discipline. For example, Clifford Geertz (b 1926-2006d) that was an impressive Anthropologists of our time and certainly the most cited Social science outside their own discipline. Was Discipline of anthropology at any time during A student, or later in their academic career. He spent Much of his adult life within the structures Harvard (USA) University, the University of Chicago (USA) And Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (USA) Is interdisciplinary in nature. We have What may be an example of limited A single discipline, but the broad and With more tools and ideas freely, to see the world Scholarship, teaching and learning as a whole, not as Feature is designed to tighten the fragmented landscape. Perhaps the maintenance of discipline - and discipline People engage in them - they are the basis of Between subjects is not as important as some believe Produce new knowledge.


But before we congratulate ourselves about how We live in a world that are happy to search again That - so many great minds in history have been known In fact, quality education is essential in order to express their own Net so wide and deep spiritual - that's the Interdisciplinarity is only half the definition And for future generations in history Scholar, and is the most important. History We look forward tells us about interdisciplinarity Ideas about the cut - is the production of knowledge In all subjects, teaching scholarship, Learning about - a small group of students, Teachers, even when they begin training in Interdisciplinary departments would like Others that are not in their habits of mind. So even if Were moving to a world in which academic discipline Will be important for the multidisciplinary team Space is a comprehensive, yet we have replaced The fact is that the production of knowledge The hand of a right brain.

In fact, maybe just try and concept Discipline, we adopted a large group of Community is concerned, but not relative Homogeneous set of faithful. It May be useful to consider the old meaning Term and discipline faculty to rethink what The whole conception of interdisciplinarity can be And impulses that can lead to doing something current interest in reconnecting, which was United States at least the beginning of the nineteenth century, to a large More inclusive education, to listen back to the approach Form of such institutions in the U.S. Philosophical Society.